The article describes the impact of artificial intelligence in different areas of the civil law, namely tort law, contract law, antitrust law and consumer protection law. It shows that the use of artificial intelligence will lead to legal constellations, which cannot longer easily be handled under elementary terms of the civil law and which therefore bring a real disruption to the civil law. Terms, which are based on a freedom concept of the subjective right, such as private autonomy and contractual will not fit anymore to the activity of artificial intelligence systems the more those systems are able to act independent of human actors. Similar applies to terms which are referring to the freedom of decision like the market behavior in the competition law. The article discusses several solution approaches, such as personification approaches, agent-principal approaches and the definition of new categories of market and contractual acting.    «

The article describes the impact of artificial intelligence in different areas of the civil law, namely tort law, contract law, antitrust law and consumer protection law. It shows that the use of artificial intelligence will lead to legal constellations, which cannot longer easily be handled under elementary terms of the civil law and which therefore bring a real disruption to the civil law. Terms, which are based on a freedom concept of the subjective right, such as private autonomy and cont...    »